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On April 29, 2011, Prince William and Kate Middleton were married at Westminster Abbey in front of 1,900 guests--and a world that couldn't look away. The wedding was broadcast in [...]

Voters' enthusiasm for the NLD has not flagged Aung San Suu Kyi's party defies expectations with a landslide victory SU PON CHIT had to contain her excitement. It was November [...]

No joke without fire Criticising the founder of Communist China is still considered blasphemous WHEN a video of Bi Fujian calling Mao Zedong 'a son of a bitch' at a [...]

Officials hope to wear protesters down, but time may be on the side of the students THE pro-democracy protests that have gripped Hong Kong since late September have reached an [...]

On the evening of Aug. 23, during the final hours of the battle for Tripoli, a 26-year-old lawyer named Mustafa Abdullah Atiri was lying, exhausted, against the back wall of [...]

Public opinion of the seven world leaders that form the Group of 7 has fallen in recent months. The group's meeting in Tokyo, Japan, did not cause change in the performance of global stock markets. A total of 275 new stocks were issued in the first half of 1993, and more are expected through the second half.

Thoroughly Modern Diana was supposed to update the monarchy. Instead, she turned up the unforgiving light of publicity. NOTHING UNITES the living as persuasively years as death. So it will [...]

A Gallup survey conducted May 2-9, 1994, found that 51% of Canadians believe their country should discontinue its ties with the monarchy. When the same question was asked in 1991, only 36% of the population held that opinion. Thirty-nine percent still favor a monarch as head of state, down 11 percentage points since 1991. Quebecers are less likely to support a monarchy than the rest of Canada, with only 17% favoring a monarchy. Female anglophones are most likely to support a monarchy.

Gorbachev deserves great credit for the change he initiated. He does not deserve the blame for what Russia has become-Yeltsin and Putin were the architects of the failure of Russia [...]

A national telephone survey among 1,023 adult Canadians was conducted between Mar 3 and 7, 1993, to determine their appraisal of Brian Mulroney as Prime Minister in comparison with previous holders of the position. Forty-two percent of the respondents said that Mulroney had been the worst or one of the worst prime ministers; 45% said that he was not much different from the others; and 11% said he was the best or one of the best prime ministers.

Prince Charles, once thought to be more at ease conversing with daffodils than women, stands revealed as the most ardent lover among British royalty since Anne Boleyn caught the eye [...]

CULT OF PERSONALITY EVERY DAY, HUNDREDS of North Koreans flock to towering statues of their country's leader, Kim Il-Sung, to bow and pay tribute to him. Although the gigantic monuments […]

THE Nature Conservancy, an independent environmental group, described it as one of the 12 'last great places in the western hemisphere'. It is home to several endangered species, and is [...]

DELIBERATIVELY polled by Professor James Fishkin of the University of Texas at Austin, the people of Britain are in a reformist frame of mind. Professor Fishkin's techniques, described in last [...]

Winston churchill often described parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy as being imperfect--but the best that man had yet devised. It is human nature to require a leader at the helm. [...]

I WAS A TEENAGER IN SUBURBAN LIVERPOOL WHEN I decided I was a republican. It seemed to be a pretty easy act of rebellion -- a bit like wearing flared [...]